Book ID: CBB000060255

The Cold War and American science: The military-industrial-academic complex at MIT and Stanford (1993)

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Leslie, Stuart W. (Author)


Columbia University Press


Publication Date: 1993
Physical Details: xiii + 332 pp.; illus.; notes; index

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Review Skolnikoff, E.B. (1995) Review of "The Cold War and American science: The military-industrial-academic complex at MIT and Stanford". Journal of Interdisciplinary History (pp. 352-53). unapi

Review Ezrahi, Y. (1995) Review of "The Cold War and American science: The military-industrial-academic complex at MIT and Stanford". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (pp. 139-40). unapi

Review Edgerton, D. (1995) Review of "The Cold War and American science: The military-industrial-academic complex at MIT and Stanford". Annals of Science: The History of Science and Technology (pp. 99-100). unapi

Review Gruber, C.S. (1994) Review of "The Cold War and American science: The military-industrial-academic complex at MIT and Stanford". History of Education Quarterly (pp. 224-26). unapi

Review Geiger, R.L. (1994) Review of "The Cold War and American science: The military-industrial-academic complex at MIT and Stanford". Technology and Culture (pp. 629-31). unapi

Review Owens, L. (1993) Review of "The Cold War and American science: The military-industrial-academic complex at MIT and Stanford". Business History Review (pp. 335-37). unapi

Review Wright, N. (1995) Review of "The Cold War and American science: The military-industrial-academic complex at MIT and Stanford". British Journal for the History of Science (pp. 490-91). unapi

Review Beardsley, E.H. (1995) Review of "The Cold War and American science: The military-industrial-academic complex at MIT and Stanford". Historian: Journal of History (pp. 806-7). unapi

Review Servos, J.W. (1994) Review of "The Cold War and American science: The military-industrial-academic complex at MIT and Stanford". Journal of American History (pp. 1369-70). unapi

Review O'Neill, J. (1994) Review of "The Cold War and American science: The military-industrial-academic complex at MIT and Stanford". IEEE Annals of the History of Computing (pp. 74-75). unapi

Review Bugos, G.E. (1993) Review of "The Cold War and American science: The military-industrial-academic complex at MIT and Stanford". Journal of Economic History (pp. 968-69). unapi

Review Israel, P. (1994) Review of "The Cold War and American science: The military-industrial-academic complex at MIT and Stanford". American Historical Review (pp. 686-87). unapi

Review Walker, J.S. (1993) Review of "The Cold War and American science: The military-industrial-academic complex at MIT and Stanford". Reviews in American History (pp. 693-97). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Lowen, Rebecca S.
Treitel, Jonathan
Leslie, Stuart W.
Hevly, Bruce W.
Elzway, Salem
Kargon, Robert Hugh
Journals
Osiris: A Research Journal Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences
Minerva: A Review of Science, Learning and Policy
Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences
Sociological Perspectives
Science
Perspectives on Science
Publishers
Stanford University
University of Chicago Press
University of California Press
MIT Press
University of Virginia
Concepts
Science
computer music
Commercialization
Music, electronic
DNA; RNA
Automata; robotics; cyborgs
People
Young, Kimball
Webster, David Locke
Terman, Frederick Emmons
Suksdorf, Wilhelm Nikolaus
Meyer, Richard Ernst
Draper, Charles Stark
Time Periods
20th century
20th century, late
Places
United States
San Francisco (California)
California (U.S.)
Institutions
Stanford University
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT
Stanford University. Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics
Varian Associates, Palo Alto
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
United States. President's Science Advisory Committee
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